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Anyone had any experience with these? They cost about £150 and reportedly a lot simpler to install than a normal shower pump.

I've come to install the shower enclosure and realised that one walls is a stud wall, but the studs are not in the right place to be able to secure the frame to. I'm thinking of removing some sections of the wall and fitting some noggins in to provide support, then patching it back up. Any...

I have a pearlstone shower tray I need to fix to a raised timber base in an upstairs bathroom. It's very heavy. I've used 18mm osb3 instead of ply as the base, as I had a load left. Does this matter? Also, do you really need to fix it with cement based adhesive, or can you just use some decent...

Hello, I'm looking at installing a shower cubicle in an upstairs bathroom, and just wondering what the options are for the shower itself as it's a gravity fed system. I put a standard mixer shower into the bath, but the flow isnt very good (presumably because there just isnt enough of a drop...

I have damp coming in underneath a shower tray and I'm fairly certain it's coming in from directly outside where there is a leak in the soil pipe which the shower and basin empty into directly outside (I can see water leaking from the pipe when the tap is on, it must be seeping through the...

Hi, In the summer I installed a shower room in a single storey single brick pantry, which is attached to my victorian semi-detached house. The floor was already concrete and the walls are single brick skin. I doubled up the wall thickness with battened PIR board followed by tiles. The shower...

I bought a thermostatic valve like the one pictured but the hot and cold inlets do not have a typical compression fitting. What I was expecting was to be able to use a standard olive and nut compression fitting to connect my water supply to , but if you look at the inlets there is no groove for...

I installed a shower tray raised up on batons and a OSB platform above a concrete floor. I recently took off the panel to find a lot of condensation underneath. I can't see any evidence of any leak. Is it possible that moisture is rising up through the concrete? It's unlikely that there is a...

Can someone explain this method for fixing wall insulation? I can't get my head around a)what the benefit is over IPB fixed to a baton system, and b) how batons can be fixed securely over insulation - the screws would need to be ridiculously long to get through 25mm baton + 50mm insulation +...

I have a small lean to pantry single skin brick with plaster on the inside, no render on the outside. I want to insulate the wall. I'm going to fix a baton system to the wall Does it make much difference fixing insulation between 50mm batons, as opposed to 25mm batons with insulated...

What saw would typically be used to cut through granite (or similar hardness) stone? I'm talking 6-8 inches of rock, not just worktops. Im guessing a petrol Stihl or similar for larger stuff?

I've been using various online calculators for calculating u values for wall insulation, however they seem to vary considerably and make massive assumptions. I need to decide how thick insulated plasterboard i install into some bedrooms - my property is a victorian semi detached, 2x brick skin...

I have a double skin/no cavity/no external render victorian semi, and i want to insulate some of the bedroom external walls. I dont want to have to remove the plaster as it'll cause major disruption. It seems dot and dab is not advisable unless there is a cavity, however can i mechanically fix...

I need to put a small rad in my bathroom, and the only place it can realistically go is where there is tiled insulated plasterboard fixed to a stud/baton system behind - see pic. How can this be fixed to the pir board securely?

I've just replaced my towel rail element, as the one that was there before was only 100w, and it never got above luke warm. I put in a 400w one (https://www.screwfix.com/p/flomasta-towel-radiator-heating-element-white-400w/245tf) , but this is so hot you can barely touch the towel rail. Should...

Hi, I've put in a shower cubicle in what used to be a room with just a toilet. I was originally going to put an extractor fan directly on the outside wall, however this would mean cutting a hole in the insulated plasterboard that i've installed in this entire room due to it not being that...

I've just bought a new sink which came with double trap and waste, however the pipework and fittings are neithrr 32mm nor 40mm . The sink came from a UK website but it's obviously made in china. Anyone had this before? I can probably botch it to fit into the 40mm waste pipe going outside but...

Just had kitchen units delivered, already prebuilt. The unit legs, which are already fixed in position, are not flat on the bottom and therefore won't sit flat on the floor and I can't figure out why they are designed like this. Any ideas? See pic

I need to tile a chimney breast alcove in which a cooker will be placed. Is hardibacker or other cement board ok behind a cooker? It'll be tiled obviously

Hello, I've had some bricks removed from.a chimney alcove to make it wider. Unfortunately the cut wasn't that clean in places as it was close to the edge of one row of bricks, so the surface is very irregular in places, with gaps 2 inches deep. I need to patch this up to make it level for...